It was Monday, the start of the week, many people dreaded it, but some people were particularly enraged, because they had to go to work with brace around their arm. This person was Shun Yang. His family was obviously surprised, and over the weekend they did try to attack Hao Ren by intimidating him, however, the young man just sent back a video with his lawyer and everything was sorted.
Hao Ren told them directly that if they tried to act out and strong arm him, then the video will be admitted in the court of law for assault. Han Nation did not allow anyone who is charged guilty in the court of law to serve as a civil official.
Shun Yang was eating his breakfast with a sneer on his face, and so were six other people on the table, which included his mother, father, sister-in-law, two brothers, and finally their pet dog.
At this moment, Old Man Shun's phone rang. He frowned but as soon as he saw the caller ID he smiled and even stood up from his seat, looking like a different person altogether. He tapped the receive button and said, "Good morning, Secretary Lin."
On the other side, Secretary Lin snorted and said, "Shun Jing, I did not expect that you would turn out to be such a corrupt and power hungry person. You are a stain in the name of the Han Nation Civil Servants. From today onward, you are suspended until further notice. You are grounded and not allowed to leave the city.
If you fail to follow any of the mentioned terms, you will be dismissed and arrested."
Shun Jing shivered, as his face paled. For a few seconds he thought the Secretary Lin was joking, and asked, "Secretary Lin, sir, are you joking with me?"
Lin did not reply and disconnected the call right away. Shun Jing fell right back in his chair. Everyone around him was surprised, but the next moment, all the people received calls from their immediate superiors, and the collective shock was delivered to the Shun Family.
Hao Ren was driving Han Lingshi to her office when the lady got the news. She smiled and said, "Shun Family has been delivered the first blow. What about the Hamil family?"
Hao Ren turned the steering and replied, "When they reach their office. I will see you at lunch."
Han Lingshi nodded and said, "Good, by the way, I received an e-mail in the morning. It seems that your subsiding firm, Thunder Investments will be facing Empress Capitals for a few projects they are interested in."
Hao Ren smiled and replied softly, "Why must we compete? Let's enter a cooperation with equal input and equal benefits."
Han Lingshi asked, "What do you want to do about the controlling votes? How will you distribute that?"
Hao Ren smiled and replied, "The problem with your Empress Capital lately has been the habit of micro managing everything. This is why the projects that you have do not yield a greater result. Thunder Investments does not wish to micro manage. We use only a simple clause, if they can not fulfil their commitments then Thunder Investments take on the management and we create our own profit.
Give them a chance to fight and they will surprise you, specially the ones who are cornered."
Han Lingshi mumbled in understanding, "A cornered beast is the most dangerous thing in this world."
Hao Ren nodded as the car came to a stop. The couple exchanged a kiss and a warm embrace before he walked her to the gates, and left under the eyes of many people. After the charity event, the newspaper covered the couple in great detail and it caused their following rise high among the masses.
Hao Ren arrived at his company and found Attorney Leigh waiting for him in the lobby. The young man greeted him and said, "Attorney Leigh, you turned in very early."
The man smiled as he controlled his wheel chair to turn around and said, "I found sleeping hard with all the adrenaline rushing through me. If not for the fact that I cannot feel my legs, I would have been dancing already."
Hao Ren chuckled and said, "Well, let's go we will talk in my cabin."
He pushed the wheelchair through the office, while they discussed a few things about work. The people greeted Hao Ren with a subtle bow and he responded with a smile. In the cabin, Hao Ren did not sit behind his work table, but sat on the couch to be at the same eye level as Leigh.
Leigh was about to say something when his phone rang. He smiled and put the call on speaker, on the other side, Delta Dickens said, "Sir, I have served the summons to the Boss of Hamil Infra, they were very shocked, just like you have predicted." ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ N0veI.Fiɾe.net
Leigh smiled and said, "It is good Delta, but the work has just began. Go to the court archives and dig up anything and everything you can about them. I will meet you there soon."
Delta accepted the command and the call was disconnected. Hao Ren was smiling with a calm smile on his face, and said, "Attorney Leigh, I would like to ask you to file a petition with the city council. It is about how I want to restructure the abandoned industrial Area into a research center. I will have a proper key note emailed to you by the end of the day.
As a legal counsel you can check the loop holes and file it for me."
Leigh nodded and agreed to the task. Then Hao Ren asked, "If you do not mind, can you tell me how you ended up in the chair?"
Leigh sighed and said, "It was a car accident, my lower spine and the nerves related to the lower bodies were damaged and by the time I reached the hospital, the damage had become permanent."
Hao Ren thought about it and nodded. Then he bade farewell to the attorney after a few minutes. He arranged for Leigh to drop the guy off to the court personally. Then he came to the research and development department. Klaus was holding a weekly meeting and they had been doing good.
The company had just launched a smart ecosystem and the range of appliances they provided for it was liked by people a lot.
Hao Ren gestured for Klaus to finish the meeting while he waited and looked around at the prototypes. Usually it was Xiao Mei would pass on his words to the company. This was the first time he had come here so obviously, he was curious.
After Klaus was finished with his meeting he came over to Hao Ren. He asked, "President, is there anything you need?"
Hao Ren nodded, and said, "I wish to start a new project. To help the people who are born with some deformity. What do you think about it?"
Klaus asked, "Do you mean smart prosthetics?"
Hao Ren nodded and Klaus said, "There are people in the Tulip Nation, they have been researching on this subject for a long time. They have made progress but it is very expensive as well. They electrode transplantation is a costly process. We will need a lot of money for this."
Hao Ren thought about it and said, "I want to develop the prototype first and then we can see how it goes. Saving people is not an easy task, first let us make sure that we have the skill to save them."
Klaus nodded and replied with a smile, "I will look after this project personally, being the director makes one quite useless."
The two of them were almost the same age, and so they bantered with each other. Hao Ren was in the company only, and he was working very dedicatedly. It was lunch time when he received a call from the reception desk that Shun Yang had come over to meet him. Hao Ren replied, "Tell him that I am busy. I have an important meeting after lunch and I am leaving for that."
He was not going to allow this man a chance to beg for mercy. However, he also said, "Call the guards if he does not give in. Have them guide him out of the office."
He left the office and he really found Shun Yang being escorted to his vehicle under the glares of four guards. He came to the Empress International and cooked a simple meal for his wife, who said, "Ren, we should head over to your house tonight. I want to be away when the Shun Family burns."
Hao Ren smiled and replied, "Fine, as you command, Your Majesty."
Han Lingshi blushed at his adoring expression and smacked his shoulder. The two of them had cast a web that left their enemies no other way to go around. Hao Ren called his parents and told them about their plan and the old people agreed.
Hao Ren suddenly thought of something and said, "Lingshi, we will need off-road vehicles. The sedans are too low to the ground."
Han Lingshi nodded and said, "I will call Cousin Shen to tag along, he has seven of those fuel drinking beasts."
Hao Ren nodded and said, "It just so happens I have to thank him for the help in that Maria issue."
Han Lingshi nodded without objection. Then the two got to their own tasks. They would be leaving the capital tonight.